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IRC revival, feeling ten years younger

Yesternight I installed mIRC on my home computers to try to log on to Joi Ito's IRC channel on Freenode. Worked fine. So now I am back in the IRC hell I managed to kick ten years ago. ;)

This is great fun. I had totally forgotten how addictive a text based chat interface can be when you are surrounded by interesting and witty people. Like on Joi Ito's channel #joiito on Freenode.

Lots of people, chatting about everything from the method of science to the ongoing personality wars in the RSS standards discussion.

This will be totally devastating to my spare time.

Very interesting thing occurred today. A japanese space vehicle crashed in Sweden (in English). Which I mentioned on #joiito. Where Erik Stattin of mymarkup.net snapped it up and blogged it. After which Joi Ito blogged Erik blogging about Japanese space vehicle crashing. I wonder what it would look like to track the flow of those information bits and bytes geographically. ;)

And now I blog it. Weird world. Interconnected. Meaningless? Probably. ;)

Read more about the wonders of IRC over at Joi Ito's blog. He words it a lot better than I.